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Inspired
Inspired is the nation's leading public radio show about faith, ethics and spirituality. Each week we offer you analyses of the big headlines alongside lesser-told stories – those of Orthodox Jewish artists and African-American atheists, Muslim feminists and spiritual seekers. Through these stories, a rough sketch of our country’s religious landscape begins to emerge. It’s a marketplace of beliefs and ideas too complex for sound bites, and too important to ignore.
This week on Interfaith Voices:
The Color of Compromise
Many American Christians are remembered as anti-racist activists and abolitionists. But American Christianity as an institution has done much to buttress racism… even before the country was founded. In fact, the actions of early American Christians towards those they had enslaved would shape America’s attitudes towards race for centuries to come.
Jemar Tisby, author The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
Remembering the women of the Civil Rights Movement
Take a moment to think of the most famous women of the civil rights movement. Coming up short after Rosa Parks? Our guest says the African-American experience has been “flattened” by history and written many important women out of the story. We hear how black women in religion have long strived to break the “stained glass ceiling.”
Yolanda Pierce, dean of the Howard University School of Divinity
Being Both: Black and Jewish
The American Jewish community was an early and ardent supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. But recently, tensions have arisen between Black and Jewish activists. We talk to two people who are proudly both.They reflect on the shared history of the two groups, and how they are sometimes “othered” by the larger Jewish community.
Rabbi Sandra Lawson, associate chaplain for Jewish life at Elon University
Rabbi Capers Funnye, leader of Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation
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